Why don’t Hindu gods have as vehicles non-Indian animals such as kangaroos

Does this indicate that there was no knowledge of non-Indian animals?

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None of the Indian gods depicted with depicted as having vehicles as vahanas, some non-Indian animals such as kangaroos why do they always depict only Indian animals does this indicate that they they are India centric and they didn’t know about other parts of the world with their particular habitat, their particular animals not necessarily, we have to look at everything within its appropriate context so the context of the broad wisdom and culture that is the dharmic culture is that there is Aryavarta Aryavarta is the land which is broadly you could say called Bharata today in this land overall there are many people who are going to, who are already elevated and even the the sages have performed the austerities over here, the lord has appeared many times over here and this is considered a sacred place so because of that overall even the animals that appear over here are considered sacred and because they are considered sacred it is not as if what they are doing is just temporary or short or what the animals that appear over here are not just contextual or circumstantial there is also a transcendental aspect to them not that they are transcendental just by being born in India but there is an element of transcendence or an element of spirituality in those animals existing in India why do they exist in India? it is because because this is they have probably done some kind of spirituality and that’s why the souls get birth in those species now we understand that species also have certain karma associated with them karma is say for example, to get the human body itself requires some high level of good karma similarly to get into particular species requires a particular amount of karma so the animals which are born in the Indian subcontinent do have a certain level of karma because of which not just particular animals but the souls are born in particular species that are prevalent in India that indicates that they had a certain level of piety does that mean that other species are not important it doesn’t necessarily mean that way every soul every species in its own way provides facility for spiritual growth and soul has a particular kind of desire to fulfill those species and by that soul grows so the devatas in India sorry the devatas who were traditionally worshipped in India they choose as their vehicles certain birds certain animals and we could say that those in the cosmic hierarchy those birds and those species are considered sacred not exactly sacred in the sense of worshipable but they have they are in some ways having some speciality and we could even say that in the cosmic hierarchy it is not that the earth comes first and the heavens come afterwards that’s what is the presumption over here that this is something which is imagined by us it is a product of human imagination and this localization is the indication of imagination but it doesn’t have to be seen in that way it can be seen in the opposite way also that the heavens come first and what appears on the earth is has descended from heavens so then on which part of earth what will appear can also be said to be a result of certain karmic considerations so in the evolution of the universe certain devatas have certain vahanas, certain vehicles as birds or animals and those birds and animals are given birth in earth on the area that is Bharat Varsha now if we go further even the archaeological evidence is never completely black and white and conclusive it is broadly speaking indicative that means we know to some extent what species appeared where now whether species like kangaroos and others existed on the earth long long time ago we don’t even know that do the if we consider the scriptures they are not describing comprehensively everything about reality they are describing specifically those aspects of material reality that are relevant for the pursuit of spiritual reality so from a from an archaeological perspective most of the archaeological sediment, archaeological remains they just get washed away with the earth’s denudation and erosion and they end up at the bottom of the oceans so the even if we had explored the whole earth exhaustively still we have not explored the bottoms of the oceans with any level of exhaustiveness so we don’t really and we don’t definitely look there for in the soil that forms at the bottom of the earth or bottom of the oceans that’s why to make universalist generalizations based on specific contextual observations is getting things is indicative of over confidence in human observation extrapolation from human observation that over confidence is not reasonable. Thank you.